Takes Quotes

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

I have to say, my celebrity is not a big factor in my life. Once in a while someone takes my picture. But I'm not exactly one of the four girls everyone's chasing at the moment.

I'm kind of a big kettle. It takes time to get boiled, but then I'm always hot.

When you are on tour in the UK it takes a few hours to get anywhere. A lot of the time you can have a beer, close your eyes for two minutes, and then you are there. In the U.S. it is much more like a road trip as all the cities are so spread apart.

Government works less efficiently when it begins to grow out of control and takes on more and more of the responsibilities that belong to the citizens.

I know what it takes to put a record together, so I'm not looking for people to come in and shape it.

I find that everything I do is demanding, like Jack Bristow is a complicated man and I do a lot of explaining in the show, it takes a lot of energy and concentration.

When I take a break for a week, it takes me three weeks to get back to where I was.

It takes a great deal of courage to follow another person's lead.

It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives.

It takes a long time for a man to look like his portrait.

I think one thing that kids who grow up on farms really have going for them is they have exposure to death and birth in a totally different way. I think it takes away a little bit of the mystery and a little bit of the fear, and I do wish I had that. And I wish I was able to grow my own food.

The design of the Mac wasn't what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarily, it was how it worked. To design something really well, you have to get it. You have to really grok what it's all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it.

Everybody's just emulated us and now everybody just kinda takes our sound as their foundations.

The crowd is just as important as the group. It takes everything to make it work.

Sometimes overturning brutal regimes takes time and costs lives. I wish it weren't so. I really, really do.

When you're sick, nobody takes care of you like your mom.

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt democratic societies and destroy the basic rules of international life.

Teen pop will never die as long as there are teens and popular music. It just takes a different head.

Every time I think I have something under control, it changes and I don't have it under control. I think it takes several years to get there. Jade is 19 months old, so right now I'm on alert all the time. And as a mom I think you're constantly worrying about things.

The greatest potential for control the ends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.

If a student takes the whole series of my folklore courses including the graduate seminars, he or she should learn something about fieldwork, something about bibliography, something about how to carry out library research, and something about how to publish that research.

There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes his whole universe for a vast practical joke.

Even in between takes, you emerge yourself. So you don't have a life for six months.

You know what I have noticed? And this is really sad. Flying first class is less scary than flying coach. They speak to you and they're so nice to you and they want to help you and they know you want a drink before the plane takes off. And they bring it to you without asking. If you're sitting in coach and hoping for a drink, good luck.

I think Van Sant is the most important American director we have. He takes the most risks. He's just pure to me.

I like any story that starts one place and really takes a huge journey to a whole new place; that people in their life want to take that journey. They want to be able to find things in their life that aren't working and work through them to a new place of change.

The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.